HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - If you haven’t seen nor heard of the Drive-By Truckers, well folks, you’re in for a treat.

Performing Friday at 10:15 p.m. on the Diamond Star stage at Big Spring Jam, the Drive-By Truckers eloquently fuse country with a Southern style of rock ‘n’ roll to create an inimitable blend of music. Since Go magazine’s last interview with the six-piece suit around late January for their performance at Crossroads, the Truckers were a few weeks from releasing their latest album “Go-Go Boots.”

Mike Cooley, guitarist and longtime band member, said in a previous article that the fans already knew the words to the album before it was released. With a discography reaching close to a dozen, Cooley previously said, “Go-Go Boots” closely follows the style of the band’s earlier albums.

“It has a little more country flavor and some rhythm-and-blues sounds, too,” he said. “Our last records were pretty rock ‘n’ roll.”

The playlist of both “Big To-Do” and “Go-Go Boots” were written and recorded around the same time, Cooley said, but started to like two different and distinct albums early on.

“On the previous albums, ‘Eyes Like Glue’ is one of the most personal songs I have ever written,” he said. “On ‘Go-Go Boots,’ there’s nothing in particular.

“What I did contribute was written a long time ago, and it was pretty more abstract this go-around.”

At 44 -- which Cooley jokingly said equates to about 103 in rock ‘n’ roll years -- he said that being on the road as much as “we have to sometimes doesn’t work.”

“Some people aren’t cut out for that life,” he said when asked about the number of musicians who have fluctuated throughout the years with the band. “I am not sure if I am.